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Lädt ... Thomas Mann: Eros and Literaturevon Anthony Heilbut
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. One of the more interesting literary biographies that I have read, this work delves into the psychology of the author in an intimate way. The author ties together various moments from Mann's long career tracing how the writer's introversion and self-obsession underwrote his telling commentaries on German society, looping from considerations of definitive late novels like Doctor Faustus back into descriptions of Mann's youth. Heilbut notes that Mann's birth occurred roughly concurrently with Germany's political unification, the legal emancipation of German Jewry, and the popularization of the term "homosexual." Detailed critical readings of Mann's private and public works probe the author's psyche while demonstrating how Mann's literary consciousness served as a stage for the exploration of the license and limits of German, Jewish, and homosexual self-expression. Heilbut describes how the classic novella Death in Venice, for example, celebrates homoerotic longing while depicting a national idol dying amid debased tourism. This and other examples made this an interesting take on Thomas Mann's life. ( ) Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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A groundbreaking biography of one of the century's most important writers. A portrait of Thomas Mann's Germany, his work, his life, his exile and arrival in America - a life of suffering and courage, of great achievement, a life beset by political hostility from the right and the left, and by the torments of sexual frustration. We see Mann, the wunderkind, transforming the history of his family into Germany's first classic novel, Buddenbrooks ... the competition between Thomas and his brother Heinrich, who became his greatest literary rival. We see Mann in turn-of-the-century Munich, always the hyperobservant outsider. And we come to understand his immense loneliness, a loneliness interrupted briefly by an affair with a young violinist, Paul Ehrenberg ("that central experience of my heart"), that was later dramatized in Doctor Faustus.
We watch his unlikely courtship of the brilliant Katia Pringsheim, member of a wealthy assimilated Jewish family. We follow their life together during their fifty-year marriage and observe his complicated relations with his six children, particularly Klaus and Erika, who became the leading political and sexual radicals of their generation. Anthony Heilbut defines Mann's place in literary historyhis relation to his literary ancestors, particularly Goethe and Nietzsche, as well as his contemporaries Gide and Kafka, and to the American writers Whitman and Melville. He provides new social and psychological insights into the interplay of Mann's life with such works as Death in Venice, The Magic Mountain, Joseph and His Brothers, and The Confessions of Felix Krull.
We watch Mann contend with the major intellectual and political crises of Europe after World War I as he evolves politically from arch defender of Germany to leading antifascist. We discover a link between his humanist politics and his dreams of sexual emancipation. We see Mann alternately enthralled and horrified by popular culture. We follow his increasing identification with the Jewish community, which included his most fervent admirers and harshest critics. Anthony Heilbut considers Mann's experience of America, first as a devotee of Roosevelt, then as an outspoken opponent of McCarthyism who was widely condemned in the press and in Congress, and hounded by his enemies well into his late seventies. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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